"Albert Hart Beal was born December 18, 1857, three miles from St. Williams, Norfolk county, Canada. At the age
of seven he moved with his parents to Green Lake county, Wis., wher [sic] he lived until 1879, when he moved to Oberlin,
Decatur county, Kans., where he married Laura Etta Miller in 1884. To this union four children were born..." (continued)